Leona Naess
By Jamie Brown • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: short playersLeona Naess is the antidote to our clamorous times.
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The Corrections
By Jamie Brown • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: short playersI wasn’t hopeful, sounding a bit like the feeling and trying to desperately persuade us they are dangerous by wishing death upon politicians sounds jarring like fifth form rebels from Fettes.
The Condors
By Jamie Brown • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: long playersThe Condors make unashamedly dirty rock and roll. I say unashamedly, as if they should be ashamed, they shouldn’t, rock and roll has always been dirty after all. And there is a suggestion, only a suggestion mind, from the inside cover photograph that they might be too old for this sort of thing. But that’s [...]
The Heartstrings
By Jamie Brown • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: long playersThe Heartstrings are a seven piece band, more of that later, from, well, it doesn’t say so, I’ll take a guess at middle England – home to tea, cricket and flags flying in gardens. They recently recorded live shows for Dermot O’ Leary (yes, him) and Janice Long (remember her) on Radio 2. In June, [...]
Raised By Tigers
By Jamie Brown • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: long playersRBT seem to come from good stock and have the right friends, the album was engineered by Polyphonic Spree collaborator Dave Willingham. A fact that can be evidenced on the more harmonious parts that punctuate this album.
